The Roethke Imitation Game: Android Edition

That is less a man and more a machine,

Or clockwork, or automaton

Hydraulic actuators and complex linkage convert into four axis motion

How he could identify himself in a mirror and not short himself out with tears

Is beyond my comprehension or even his own, if limits be drawn

Or perhaps he is deeply in love with what he has become

Or rages against the loss of humanity

Or secretly tries to remove all the metal bits

Or orders even more components from obscure enhancement catalogs

Or he once decided to live forever and regrets that choice every day